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We showed that APOL1 high risk genotypes were associated with albuminuria in African American children. The p.N264K variant may modify this risk, warranting further study. link.springer.com/article/10…

APOL1 and chronic kidney disease in pediatrics: a study from the Biorepository and Integrative...

Pediatric Nephrology - APOL1 variants confer increased risk for kidney disease in individuals of African ancestry, particularly in homozygous or compound heterozygous states. A missense variant,...

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Physicians at UT Health Science Center and Le Bonheur Participate in $3 Million NIH Grant on Childhood Interstitial Lung Disease news.uthsc.edu/physicians-at…

Physicians at UT Health Science Center and Le Bonheur Participate in $3 Million NIH Grant on...

Le Bonheur and University of Tennessee Health Science Center physicians Jonathan D. Finder, MD, and Terri Finkel, MD, PhD, were recently named co-principal investigators of a five-year, $3 million...

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Twist Bioscience Launches Pangenome Spike-in Exome Panel to Enable Advancement of Research for Diverse Populations - businesswire.com/news/home/2…

Twist Bioscience Launches Pangenome Spike-in Exome Panel to Enable Advancement of Research for...

Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon pla...

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GSDMB/ORMDL3 Rare/Common Variants Are Associated with Inhaled Corticosteroid Response among Children with Asthma mdpi.com/2730802 #mdpigenes via @Genes_MDPI

GSDMB/ORMDL3 Rare/Common Variants Are Associated with Inhaled Corticosteroid Response among...

Inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) are efficacious in the treatment of asthma, which affects more than 300 million people in the world. While genome-wide association studies have identified genes involved...

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Excellent ML postdoc opportunities at Emory under my previous mentor. Dr. Kamaleswaran is a wonderful mentor with a respectful attitude and enthusiasm for sharing his expertise.
Rishi Kamaleswaran@rkamaleswaran28 Oct 2021
I'm looking to hire #ML postdoctoral fellows to help with a wide range of biomedical informatics research. Please reach out if you are interested, otherwise please RT! :) faculty-emory.icims.com/jobs…
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Congratulations team, it was pleasure to be part of this fantastic work, well-led by @rkamaleswaran
Rishi Kamaleswaran@rkamaleswaran25 Sep 2021
Our multi-center validation paper on ARDS was published today at @PLOSONE, we had an amazing team that worked hard to make this possible! @gsmartinmd @GariClifford @pyang88 @LakshyaSingha20 @AIanWongMDPhD @akram9 journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…

eARDS: A multi-center validation of an interpretable machine learning algorithm of early onset...

We present an interpretable machine learning algorithm called ‘eARDS’ for predicting ARDS in an ICU population comprising COVID-19 patients, up to 12-hours before satisfying the Berlin clinical...

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Akram Mohammed, MS, PhD retweeted
Rishi Kamaleswaran@rkamaleswaran17 Sep 2021
Thrilled that my #NIH #R01 on #Sepsis is awarded! With this, we hope to better understand sepsis physiology. Honored to be working with an awesome multi-inst. team!! Drs. CM Coopersmith, @TimBuchmanMDPhD, G Clermont, MR Pinsky, @GariClifford, and O Inan bit.ly/3kljorQ
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I just pledged my commitment to #OpenScience. Will you join me and make your pledge too? #FutureOfOpenScience plos.org/scientists-for-open…

Leading the future of open science publishing - PLOS

Discover how we are transforming scholarly publishing with a mission-driven commitment to open science, research integrity, and innovation that benefits researchers, institutions, and society...

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Akram Mohammed, MS, PhD retweeted
Yan Cui@YanCui230 Aug 2021
Glad to share our newly upgraded Bayesian Network Webserver (compbio.uthsc.edu/BNW), an interactive platform for causal inference. It is equipped with a very flexible user interface to add constrains for BN structure learning. And perform "do-calculus" with just a few clicks!
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Akram Mohammed, MS, PhD retweeted
UT Health Sciences@uthsc21 Oct 2020
Researchers at UTHSC working with colleagues at the University of New Mexico have identified three drugs, already approved for other uses in humans, as possible therapeutics for COVID-19. Study is being led Dr. Colleen Jonsson, director of UTHSC RBL. news.uthsc.edu/uthsc-researc…
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Akram Mohammed, MS, PhD retweeted
UT Health Sciences@uthsc19 Oct 2020
Entered into an agreement with the @Regeneron Genetics Center to advance the goal of the university, along with our partner hospitals @LeBonheurChild, to provide precision medicine tailored to the individual genomic characteristics of patients. news.uthsc.edu/uthsc-collabo…
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UT Health Sciences@uthsc25 Aug 2020
CONGRATS to Dr. Jon McCullers, @LeBonheurChild @pedschief and chair of the @UTHSCMedicine Department of Pediatrics, on being named a Health Care Hero by @MBJMemphis!! bizjournals.com/memphis/news…

Health Care Heroes in unprecedented times: Dr. Jon McCullers, UTHSC/Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital

"I would love to see a new transformation, not back to the old days, but to a novel future state where improved interaction with the patient is the goal, not the impediment to completing a task."

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Akram Mohammed, MS, PhD retweeted
Rishi Kamaleswaran@rkamaleswaran23 Aug 2020
Why is @AMIAinformatics charging regular conference fees for an almost nil-cost virtual zoom conference?? Strange considering almost all other conference registrations are waived.
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Akram Mohammed, MS, PhD retweeted
UT Health Sciences@uthsc6 Aug 2020
Several vaccine candidates are showing early promise, prompting the big question — when will we have a vaccine? @LeBonheurChild @pedschief Dr. Jon McCullers and @UTHSCMedicine Dr. Scott Strome answer those questions and more in @dailymemphian op-ed. dailymemphian.com/section/op…

Opinion: UTHSC experts outline hurdles to vaccine

"The data on inducing COVID-19 immune responses are promising, but it is not clear yet whether this will result in limited protection, modest protection or complete protection from either infection...

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Speeding up eQTL scans in the BXD population using GPUs biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
Akram Mohammed, MS, PhD retweeted
UT Health Sciences@uthsc13 Jul 2020
Wondering what is fact and what is fiction during the #COVID19 pandemic and feel that all roads are pointing to the common denominator of fear? @UTHSCMedicine Dr. Strome gives the facts in his guest column in the @dailymemphian. dailymemphian.com/section/op…
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Congratulations Dr. Hayes for a well deserved recognition from @AACR and for your valuable contributions to the field of cancer resarch.
UT Health Sciences@uthsc9 Jul 2020
Dr. Neil Hayes, division chief of Hematology and Oncology @UTHSCMedicine, is among the recipients of the 2020 Team Science Awards from the @AACR for his contributions to developing The Cancer Genome Atlas. Fantastic job Dr. Hayes!! #cancerresearch news.uthsc.edu/uthscs-hayes-…
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